Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Responsibility

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Ford, Henry

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Lane, Rose Wilder

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Depree, Max

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Guthrie, Arlo

Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

O'Neil, George

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From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Waitley, Denis

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A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.

Angelou, Maya

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Rohn, Jim

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The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Robertson, Walter S.

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

34.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Stirner, Max

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We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

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Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.

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Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Winkler, Henry

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Sartre, Jean-Paul